Kanazawa (2004a) proposes that the human brain may have difficulty comprehending entities and situations that did not exist in the ancestral environment, and, as one empirical demonstration of this Savanna Principle, Kanazawa (2002) shows that people who watch certain types of TV shows are more satisfied with their friendships, suggesting that they may have difficulty distinguishing TV characte...

Video structuring, in particular applied to TV programs which have strong editing structures, mostly relies on supervised approaches either to retrieve a known structure for which a model has been obtained or to detect key elements from which a known structure is inferred. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised approach to recurrent TV program structuring, exploiting the repetitiveness of ke...

The profit and loss system is an integral part of a dynamic market economy. Losses eliminate businesses that are inefficiently managed or whose products no longer provide sufficient value. Almost a dozen popular TV shows feature entertaining expert hosts claiming to “save” failing businesses with injections of physical and human capital. We undertake the first comprehensive analysis of these sh...

Against the background of media commercialization reform since 1990s in China and drawing on case »X-Change« (2006-2019), Wei Dong investigates affective meaning-making mechanism multimodal text Chinese reality TV. The focus lies ways which emotions are appropriated disciplined by regimes power identity, affect - this primarily kuqing (bitter emotions) communicated material body have potential ...

In little more than a year, from November 2005 to the autumn of 2006, YouTube became a new media phenomenon. This library of videos uploaded from millions of users is one of the best examples of the complex matrix of new media that are described as convergence (Walther, 2005), convergence culture (Jenkins, 2006) and Web 2.0. (Musser & O’Reilly, 2007). It is complex because the content is unpred...

BACKGROUND While excessive television viewing has been associated with negative outcomes in children's welfare, parental co-viewing has been suggested as an effective way to prevent these negative effects. The objective of the present study is to specify some social contexts of co-viewing and to assess whether co-viewing modifies the effects of media on children's TV-related fears. METHODS Th...

The Texmix demonstration presents an original interface to navigate a collection of broadcast news shows, exploiting speech transcription, natural language processing and image retrieval techniques. Navigation is performed through keywords search or through time or through maps, with links automatically created either between reports to follow the story or to the Web to know more about a story,...

For M an R-module and m an element of M we define the order ideal, 0M(m), to be the ideal which consists of the images of m under homomorphisms of M to R. The proof proceeds by considering the height of particular order ideals, 0M(m), in relation to the projective dimension of M. Specifically, if M is a kth syzygy of the 7?-module TV and if xx, . . . ,xk_l is an R sequence, then Torf (TV, R/(xi...

TV series such as "House MD", "Grey´s Anatomy" or "Emergency Room" are well perceived by medical students. Seminars featuring medical TV series such as "House MD" might serve as door-opener to attract medical students to learn more about rare diseases. The TV series "House MD" is troublesome for the main character Dr. House is an excellent diagnostician but at the same time a rather misanthropi...

A survey after the 2002 flood in Germany identifies contact with floodwater as a risk factor for diarrhea and injuries and shows that the affected population valued the given professional support in securing homes and cleanup work. Evacuations were well tolerated. Information reached the population mainly through loudspeakers, radio, and TV.